Tag Archives: transnational

TNS Seminar Wednesday 22nd March: Jenny Cuffe and Henrietta Nleya

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 22nd March, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Room 1177, Avenue Campus Who: Jenny Cuffe and Henrietta Nleya ā€˜Family stories: the relationship between narrator and listenerā€™ ā€˜I believe that there is no more real or more realistic way of exploring communication in general […]

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TNS Seminar Wednesday 14th December: Dr Eleanor Jones & Dr Scott Soo

ā€˜Death: the end of our stories, or only the beginning?ā€™ When: Wednesday 14th December, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Eleanor Jones – Ā ā€˜Death stories: encountering the corpse in narratives of Lusophone Africaā€™ From the earliest days of European maritime expansionism in the fifteenth century, when the unknowability of the territory […]

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TNS Seminar series 2016-17 ā€˜Moving Storiesā€™

We shall dedicate the forthcoming series of TNS seminars to the theme of moving stories. This involves stories which move literally across borders and contexts, as well as stories which move us emotionally. As students of societies, histories and cultures we often engage stories in order to understand and analyse our subject. Stories come in […]

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Presentations from TNS Debate 25th November 2015: Prof Jon Adams, Prof Neil Wrigley and Prof Ulrike Meinhof

The TNS Debate The Impact of Research What do we understand by it and what counts as evidence in the Humanities and the Social Sciences Please see below the presentations from the seminar: Wrigley – TNS Debate Adams – Impact REF2014 Meinhof – Impact study cultural diasporas

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Joint TNS and Archaeology Seminar Wed 9th December 2015: Dr Rodney Harrison

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar, in collaboration with Archaeology. When: Wednesday 9th December 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1173, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Rodney Harrison Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage How does heritage make the future? From nuclear waste in Sweden to global endangered languages, from a […]

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